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Fabaceae
Scorpion-senna
Hippocrepis emerus
Also known as Emerus shrub, Coronilla emerus, Scorpion vetch, Coronilla florida
Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Scorpion-Senna · Fabaceae · Shrub · Yellow Flowers · Pollinator · Mediterranean · Well-Drained · Rock Garden · Ornamental
Hippocrepis emerus (Scorpion-senna) is a decorative flowering shrub in the pea family, producing bright yellow blooms that attract pollinators in spring. It thrives in well-drained soils in full sun to partial shade and is quite tolerant of poor, rocky, or alkaline soils once established. Pruning lightly after flowering helps maintain a tidy shape.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; allow soil to dry between waterings once established · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 7.5–8
- Temperature
- -25°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 6 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 18 in
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, California, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, North Caucasus, Norway
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle
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